Tamari

If only I could sing

Then it would be your name

But all my lips can bring

Is something like a dirge

For they cannot but ring

As an echo to my heart

I had this special girl

Her dear name was Tamari

She had a thing for me

Her desire was to marry

But none of it I'd have

My affections were for Mary

I pushed her to the wall

But she just kept returning

As a bonny baby girl

To the mother who just scolded

Never left me at all

Even when I crushed her heart

You see this girl Tamari

Didn't make my heart to flip

Didn't look like a fairy

Neither was her figure slender

Wasn't moved by my gari

Like these honeys I be chasing

But then again Tamari

Was so harmless like a child

She had my back always

Never changing like the tide

Whenever she graced my home

Left a scene worthy of pride

So now I seek Tamari

But alas she's more than gone

The girl I didn't marry

Lady I should have cherished

My name she cannot carry

She's another's happy wife.

The Dream

In love again to fall

I dreaded the thought

Like a drunkard after a fall

Regards the tempting pot

Will she catch me when I fall?

I pondered 'pon my bed

For I knew not at all

The fate that God had laid

So treading on my toes

Like a thief in the night

I  drew ever so close

Heart beating with might

My throat waxed dry

My words they grew few

Like a village girl shy

In a lone chapel pew

But catch me she did

Like mother with child

And  nobody she'd bid

To have me beside

Like lioness with cub

She'd kill to guard me

Fierce stare like a stab

To the girls beside me

So in me I questioned

Why the fears so grim

But then awake I did

For it was just a dream

My Father's House

I rejoice as a prince born into wealth

Because my father is the King of kings

I speak as one of the wise of the earth

Because my father is the sage of sages

I am a lover of all the created species

For my father is the maker of them all

All the beasts and birds and fishes

Are his fine works fashioned to enthral

Shadowy lands under serene moonlit skies

Or ocean waves a thousand sunrays glancing

Clouds racing past or stealthy as spies

The beautiful fruit of his imagining

The forest birds sound a matchless melody

While the mountain falls ceaseless roar

The lion of the savanna bows to nobody

And the eagles ever higher peerless soar

The stars and distant galaxies pay homage

But so do the ant kingdoms under earth

Though voiceless to my ear, they divulge,

The praises of glory at his zenith

For want of time I mention but a billionth

Of all the colour and flavour and pleasures,

And the resounding fame and spanless worth

Of all the splendour of my father's house.


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Beautiful Burglar!

You smile that smile of yours
Throw your head back and laugh
Like you've never known any woes
Or seen how that life can be rough

Puppet-like,my smile reflects yours
Forgive my long stare and fixed gaze
I'm sure I could be at it for hours
Your beauty's got me in such a daze!

I thought my heart was now burglar proof
After all the times it's been vandalised
How on earth did you get under my roof?
Or steal away a heart so well galvanized

For this crime so unexpected,unsuspected
You must pay for the rest of your life
This can only be fair if we get married
You own my heart and should be my wife!

Babe,I swear I nearly gave up on love
The heart can take only so many knocks
Had I known who God kept for me,my Eve,
I would have waited for endless epochs!

Come now,let us make up for lost time
Take my hand and let's enjoy this journey
You're mine,I'm yours,the match is prime
I see us painting the future red Honey!